Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) is an emerging infectious disease that first manifested in humans in China in November 2002 and has subsequently spread worldwide. According to the World Health Organization, 8098 cases occurred during the outbreak, and healthcare workers accounted for 1707 (21%) of the cases. To determine the prevalence of SARS infection of healthcare workers in Taiwan, we performed a serosurvey by the recombinant protein-based enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) to test for immunoglobulin (Ig) G antibodies to the SARS coronavirus (SARS-CoV) among 1525 healthcare workers in 26 hospitals that admitted SARS patients in mid-May, 2003. Then, a case-control study was carried out to evaluate the risk factors of SARS infection among the healthcare workers. A total of 52 infected staffs and 78 hospital and age matched non-infected controls were recruited. The seroprevalence rate was 3.68% (58/1525) for healthcare workers. Univariate analysis showed that with the habit of drinking coffee or tea, taking care of fever patients more than 8 days, ever practice of CPR, suction of sputum, taking patient¡¦s temperature, use of P100 mask, use of N95 mask, use of face cover, use of goggles, use of gown, removing gloves after work, working in isolation area or fever screen station were significantly protective factors. In addition, eating jujube was a risk factor for SARS infection. Then, the multivariate analysis showed that use of P100 ¡]OR: 0.056, 95%CI: 0.019-0.162, p value: <0.001¡^and working in isolation area ¡]OR: 0.153, 95%CI: 0.029-0.810, p value: 0.027¡^or fever screen station¡]OR: 0.103, 95%CI: 0.011-0.963, p value: 0.046¡^were the most important protective factors for SARS infection. These findings suggest that nosocomial infection of SARS can be prevented effectively by use of P100 and the triage screening in emergency departments.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0712106-162219 |
| Date | 12 July 2006 |
| Creators | Huang, Shiau-Jiuan |
| Contributors | Yao-Shen Chen, Hsueh-Wen Chang, Luo-Ping Ger |
| Publisher | NSYSU |
| Source Sets | NSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive |
| Language | Cholon |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0712106-162219 |
| Rights | unrestricted, Copyright information available at source archive |
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